![]() ![]() Also toppled in June 1989 was Hu Qili, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee. Although these two men held the highest titular positions in China, in truth, both answered to their mentor Deng Xiaoping, the paramount leader of the day. They included Hu Yaobang in 1987 and Zhao Ziyang in June 1989. Then, in the turbulent late-1980s, three more top leaders were purged. Hua and most of his camp were able to keep their Party membership but were demoted to less powerful positions. Mao’s last hand-picked successor, Hua Guofeng, gradually lost power between 19 as the result of an earlier power struggle with veteran revolutionaries, including Deng Xiaoping and Marshall Ye Jianying. In the 38-year span covered by the timeline, the frequency of purges spiked twice, first relatively mildly and then more dramatically. The fallen are sorted into three levels based on their positions within the Politburo-the highest leaders, including Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, and Zhao Ziyang members of the Politburo Standing Committee, including Wang Dongxing, Hu Qili, and Zhou Yongkang and ordinary members of the Politburo, including Wu De, Chen Xilian, Ji Dengkui, Chen Yonggui, Chen Xitong, Chen Liangyu, Bo Xilai, and Xu Caihou. Skip to the interactive timelineīecause the number of lower-level Party officials ousted over the time period covered is so high, our timeline includes only members of the Politburo, the nation’s most powerful political body-the one that controls the Party, the People’s Liberation Army (P.L.A.), and the government. The timeline below gathers the details of the toppling of the Party’s highest-level leaders from the time of Mao’s death to yesterday’s announcement that former public security czar and Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang was under investigation by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for “serious disciplinary violations.” The timeline was originally published in September 2013, just after the trial of Bo Xilai-the fallen Chongqing Party Secretary who was sentenced to life in prison for corruption, bribery, and abuse of power on September 22 and who is widely considered to have been one of Zhou Yongkang’s key allies. ![]() ![]() When Mao died in 1976, it was agreed by Party survivors that the constant and ruthless upheaval must end.īut the struggles continued, albeit at a slower pace and in a less radical fashion. Political infighting and purges have been hallmarks of the Chinese Communist Party since its earliest days but came to a peak during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, damaging the country and paralyzing the Party itself. (This feature first appeared on Septemand was most recently updated on December 5, 2014.) ![]()
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